Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Construction workers seek drug testing

Dozens of construction workers want the city council to enforce drug and alcohol testing for employees.

The Associated Builders and Contractors Empire State Chapter rallied Monday at the steps of City Hall, calling on the city to enforce the testing.

"Construction is hazardous enough already, without having to worry about if the person next to you is under the influence of something," said an advocate at the rally. "So I think testing that's done by a third party would be beneficial to help give workers the confidence to know that their job site is as safely run as possible."

A performance report that the group released says drug and alcohol use account for nearly one-third of construction accidents nationwide.

13 comments:

Anonymous
said...

This article is a joke and so is the associated builders and contractors!! They exploit there workers low wages and no benefits.The man who spoke on behalf ofthese workers is part of a company called the rinaldi group who had there contractor license pulled by the dob for numerous violations and a death on one of their sites! https://www.google.com/amp/s/therealdeal.com/2015/11/13/city-suspends-rinaldi-groups-building-license/amp/

"Many jobs have alcohol & drug testing.......also should be mandatory for those collecting public assistance and EBT"

Good grief, you are asking for too much. For EBT abusers, I would be satisfied as long at the supermarket they don't buy steak and shrimp with the card and then pay cash for lottery tickets and cigarettes.

The 32 construction deaths that happened in the past 2 years have all been on NON-UNION job sites... There already drug testing on some sites... This association needs to start paying their workforce and give them benifits!!!

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